Marking and checking attachment for corn-planters.



J. D. GREEN & W. D. KONANTZ. MARKING AND CHECKING ATTACHMENT FOR 00m: PLANTERS.

APPLIOATION FILED FEB. 12,1914.

1 ,1 1 1,223. Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

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HE NORRIS PETERS CO.. PHOTO-LITHQ. WASHINGTON. D. c.

I. D. GREEN & W. D. KONANTZ. MARKING AND CHECKING ATTACHMENT FOR CORN PLANTBRS.

- APPLICATION FILED I'EB. 12,1914. 1 1 1 1 ,223, 7 Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

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(WM 2; I 1676 Mar e M i gfzfl/vwrvfz THE NORRIS PEYERS c0. FHOTO-LITHQ. WASHINGTON, D. C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES D. GREEN AND WALTER I). KONANTZ, F ARCADIA, KANSAS.

1 tachments for (lorn Planters; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This inventionjrelates to improvements in marking attachments'for corn plantersand the" main object of the invention is to providea simply constructed and efficient de vice of this character which will operate to great advantage and will eliminate the necessity the field, in order to properly eheck the corn.

Another object of the invention is to soconstruct' our marking device as to render it i applicable to corn planters of "various constructions without sacrificing any of its advantages. I

-Still anotherobject is to construct the.

marker in sucha manner straight'lines will be marked length of'the field, said lines from the-seed shoes that they may be'used as guides on the return trip across the field.

It will be understood from the constructhat a pair of thatthe straight lines" above mentioned, will be broken opposite every hill of corn planted. The brought outin the body of the specificat on.

ings, wherein the above objects view, the invjention resides in certain novel features of construction and combination herein described'and claimed .Figure 1" is a plan view'of a corn planter showing our improved markers applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereoff is a verticallongitudinal section on the line 33 of Fig. 1; and Fig. it is a detail perspective view of-one end of the hopper Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed February 12, 1914. Serial No. 818,298.

of employing a wire stretched across I throughout the being so spaced purpose of this will be also and shown inthe draw:

MARKING AND CHECKING :ATTAGI-IMENT non oonN-PLANTERs.

Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

frame showing more clearlythe construction of one of our markers and the method of attachment to said frame.

In the embodiment illustrated in the drawings,flwe have shown acorn planter comprising the usual supporting and driving wheels JV connected bythe supporting axle A upon which is mounted the main frame F'of the planter. The usual hopper framef is pivoted at P to the forward end of the frame F, said hopper frame carrying the hoppers H, which deliver the'seed to the seed shoes-S, the delivery mechanism. for

well-known manner through the action of the shafts which is driven'in the usual man her from theaXle S are connected by a transverse bar B. to which and to the frame 7 is bolted the tongue T, a lever L beingconnected to the rear-end, of said tongue for the purpose of raising and lowering the seed shoes, as is common in devices of this character.

, Mounted in suitable brackets 1 depending fromtheside bars .7) of the frame fis a rock shaft2- which carries rearwardly extending arm's 3'on itsopposite ends, said arms being rigidly'secured to said shaft. A third 3.1 1114 risesrigidly from the shaft 2 at a pointnear the tongue T andsaid arm 4 is yieldingly connected to said tongue by means tion and arrangement hereinafteridescribed of-acoil spring 5; Disposed'between the arm3 at the right hand side of the machine and thearml, is a second upright arm 6, thefupper end; of 'which is curved transversely and bifurcated to form a fork 7.

Loosely mounted upon the axle A is a driving wheel 8 which. bears at one side againsta stop 9 and is provided on its opposite side with one member 10 of a clutch the opposite member 11 of which is slidably keyed to the shaft A and is operated in the "lusual manner by the fork 12 of a clutch ever.

Revolubly mounted upon a shaft 13 supported by arms 15. which divergeand are respectively connected to the front bar I) of the frame f and the transverse bar B, is

said seed(i1ot shown) being operated in a Q A by means of a sprocket chainfC. The front ends of the seed shoes 1 each eros Contact with the 4 ground.

I 7 directly opposite arepl'antfed, It will also a guide pulley 16, around which and the drive wheel 8, passes an endless wire cable 17 which is provided at suitable intervals with metal balls or tappets 18. As clearly shown in Fig. 3, the rearward stretch of the cable 17 passes through the fork 17 and the tappets 18 are disposed in such positions as to catch in said fork and rock the same rearwardly, thus locking the arms 3 downwardly for a purpose to appear.

Ri gidly securedto the bars I) at each end of the frame f, is a laterally projecting,

U-shaped bracket 19, the arms 20 of which eras 22 at points approximately midway between the bars'21 and 23. Spaced from p s bar 21 of the brackets 19 is a cross bar sides of the standards 22, guide blocks 29 b eing disposed between said bars 21 and 28. Bars-28, similar to the bars 28, are secured to thestand 'rds 22 and spaced from the 11 per bars 27 of b ooks being Mounted to slid'ein a vertical plane within the guides formed by the Various cross bars and by the blocks 29 and 29 is a pair of marking rods 30, the lower ends of which normally contact with the soil being planted.

The n per ends of the rods 30 are connected i to cab ee 31 which pass over the sheaves 2 1 28 which is secured to the inner the bracing frames, guide disposed between the bars 1 and are secured at their opposite ends to the I arms 3 'ihus it will be seenthat when the shaft 2 is rocked as hereinbefore described,

tb-eniarking rods 30 will be raised out of This operation takes place simultaneously with the dropof seed by the hoppers H and shoes S. From the above described construction and operation, it will be clear that the lower ends of the rods SO will mark the soil betweenthe hills of corn, but will leave a gap the points where "the hills be noted that the marking rods are spaced from the shoes T S aflistance equal to half the space between said shoes. By this arrangement or parts, 5

after planting the first two rows of cor'nj is s mply necessary to 1 tur the machine" around, start the proper mar-king red 30 in the mark made on the 1 -previous tri and continue back across the field thus dropping two more rows of corn, spaced the proper distances from the rows previously planted. By always maintaining the lower end of the marking rod 30 in the mark previously made, and being careful that said rod rises at precisely the same points it rose on its previous trip, the corn may be accurately checked in straight rows transversely of the field, well as longitudinally thereof. Should it be noted that the marking rod 30 is lifted too soon, or not soon enough, the clutch may be thrown out and the drive wheel 8 may be turned by the foot of the operator until said rod is again in proper position, whereupon the clutch may again be thrown in and the machine inayegain be started.

Although we have described our invention with oonsiderable mi' ateness, we djo not wish to be limited to details of construction otherthan those amplified'in the appended oiaiins, e r It will be understood that we could'einploy sprocket chain in piaoe oi the cable 17 and that said chain would operate to equal adv'a tage provided it, t o, were supp ied with proper tappets. In case the "sprocket chain is empl yed, it will or eourse be understood that'sprooket wheels will be e'mploy' d in plaee of the grooved wheels 8 and f6.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is':- p e v y I '1. The combination with e lanter, of marking bars mounted-for a vertically slid, ing movement on said planter, a rock "shaft journaled on said planter, rigid ari'ns near the ends of said roekehait, a fork rigidly secured to said shaft intermediate said arms, a guide on s id planter, a drive wheel on the shaft of ing round said drive wheel and said guide, a plurality of tappets on said jfl'exible' 'ele ment, sheaves revolubl'y mounted above said marking rods, and flexible connecting ele ments passing over said sheaves and having their opposite ends connected to said marking rods and the arms on said. rock shaft,

the fork on said shaft straddling said flexibl'e element. I y

2. The combination with a planter having.

a transverse hopper frame, of a U-shaped ex tensionbracket having its arms secured to one end of sald hopper frame, standards I secured to the inner side of and rising from the cross bar of said bracket, aba'r connect ving the upper ends of said standards, aU shaped bracing frame havingits cross bar secured to the outersides, of said standards at points intermediate their ends, the arms of said frame inclining-downwardly an being secured. to said hop or frame, bar's secured to the inner sides 0 said standards said planter, a flexible element pas and lying in thelp lahes of thecro s sbars of set ourhandsjnibresence of two subscribing saidbracket and" said frame,'space d guide Witnesses. blocks disposedj between said bars and the t JAMES D. GREEN. cross bars of sand bracket and sand frame, I a marking rod slidably-mounted between e WA E iK N .said guide blocks, and means fo r raising said Witnessesr marking rod at intervals. D. M; GREEN, In testimony 'Whereof We have hereunto J. N. TAYLOR.

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